Working the Light: A Contemporary Figurative Painting Retrospective
Sandy Goodman, 1918-2012
“All the while I was sculpting, I drew. You look at a few drawings and you know everything about a person. There were many works I loved: Klee when his nerves scratched, Van Gogh in the flat anguish of his line, and Cezanne so tormented by breathlessness and caution at his best. Slowly it became clear that the only problem of the artist, as indeed of anyone else, is simply to be freshly and deeply accessible to life as it moves in and around them. Everything else follows.”
Sandy Goodman began as a sculptor in New York, studying and teaching at the Art Students’ League with William Zorach and Jose de Creeft. Close comrades included James Baldwin, Joseph Campbell, and Phillip Guston during a productive two decades in Greenwich Village and the Maverick Art Colony in Woodstock, during which he received awards at a number of juried exhibitions.
In 1960, he left New York as part of the Exodus Group and eventually resettled with his wife and two young children in a log cabin they built on acreage ten miles outside of Ashland, Oregon. He began teaching at the local university, but soon students preferred to come to the cabin for lessons. He built a studio that became the Cabin School of Creative Expression. In 1974, he moved into town at his children’s request and continued to work until his passing in 2012. The original home has now been renovated and become the home of Wild Sage Refuge, an artist and writers’ retreat center.
Openings
Monday, July 1, 2019, 6-8pm — Preview, discussion & tasting
Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 6-8pm — House concert: Plan B with Cyrise and Stephen Schachter
First Friday, July 5, 2019, 6-8pm
Gallery also open July 1-5, 2019 by arrangement at 510.206.0927
Wild Sage Refuge & Gallery
1323 Lee St, Ashland, Oregon 97520
wildsage.org